Chapter 3 of project featherstorm: The sewe-ness monsters
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Saint olga
The turists call it the most magical city in the world
But underneath all the towering ancient buildings, deep deep in the bowels of it all, lies such terrible things
Some cases of disaperances have started to pop up
People that have accumulated too much debt and are unable to pay it have started going missing
A certain green man has been accused mutiple times of being at fault, but denies it at every turn
He admitedly has a point, after all, is not he that made these people never see the light of the day again
That honor goes to his friends downstairs
He merely pointed out the best targets and the rest is history
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{The fish trio, what the hell is that?} the bird of steel thought as she descended into sewers of saint olga
A day after her ecounter with Fortuna she had replayed in her head some of the stuff she had heard on the lucky treasure, and decided to check if what the other patrons were saying about the sewer creature had a link to the files
The sewers, they were an unpleasant place to be
Small inclosed spaces were the very bane of her fighting or rather lack of fighting style
{Much better to put them to sleep, its more efficient, but no they all must choose the most painfull route} she grumbled to herself
After some fruitless trekking she heard it
Voices
Male (?) and female (?) coming her way
With nowhere to hide she braces for confrontation, until the voices stop
Sounds of hastily retreating steps could be heard
{What happened?} She couldnt have been noticed that soon
Oh welp, now with a clue on where to go next, she decided to follow them
Through winding corridors she went
As she followed them she noticed something weird
In a slightly better lit part she saw something that resembled a tail
{What?} She thought speeding her pace
She was about to close in on then when she turned around a corner and then…
They were no longer there, vanished into thin air
After a few curses kelly thought that the chances of the people on the files being alive might be dwindling
{Possible sewer monsters having their.. claws(?) in people people that were desparete for money, oh god talk about a cliche} if she could she would at least give the families a body to bury
Counting this night as a faliure she headed home to try and get rid of the awful sewer smell
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- The final show of the season is upon some of you - Gabriel had called a meeeting with all of the staff of the saints of crossroads - now, i know its a bit early to be thinking about the next musical even though we still have one last hurrah with this one
- But i could not contain myself, I have worked day in day out two adapt this one into a reality
- So that begs the question, what, is going to be next musical in theater - he paused for dramatic effect - Its, drumm roll please, a GreenScarab musical - he jumped in happiness
Everyone including kelly got very interested, the 1988 horror comedy movie was a classic
- The roles of everyone will be announced soon, we will need to start working on some of the props as soon as possible.. - he went on talking about the technicall aspects of the production
While that happened kelly wondered what role she would have
{Since im the newest and.. youngest menber ill probably not get a big role i hope i can sing at least one song} the 19 year old though to herself
After that, since she had nothing else to do, she decided to explore, to finally make a tour of the city in daylight, she had only seen what remained and what was new during nightime
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The walk was going well until she heard…. it(?)
Leaving the safer areas of the city and going into the more dangerous areas kelly willows passed by what she could only describe as the most stereotipical alleyway imaginable
Dark? Yes
Even if someone heard a yell they would most likely ignore it? Yeh
And finally a convinient escape route through the massive sewer cover? Absolutley
So really, she should not have been all that surprised when she heard something shady going on
A small creature, the same one as the night before, judging by the tail, had crawled out of the sewer and left something in the dumpster which caused the suspcious noise, and now was going back to its home(?)
Kelly decided to check the dumspster instead of the following the creature, after all if it could vanish into thin air once it could twice
{Oh.. why am i not surprised} there was a body in the dumpster
Mutated almost beyond recognition, it seemed like a mix between man and..fish?
She decided to anonymously contact the police and then see what their forensics team said about this
She doubted whoever that was could be identified but maybe a miracle could occur
After that she went on her way still a lot of the city left to re discover and not all that much time left until the sun went and the moon came signifying the start of her shift
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{Where to go where to go?} The bird of steel mused to herself
By all means there was no place to go
The sewer creatures could vanish into thin air, rendering whatever attempt she could at tracking them down useless
Fortuna will probably just throw another spell on her wich would make this night even worse than wasted
And finally it was gonna take at least a few days before she could see what the forensics team of the Saint Olga PD found out about the body
She was at a dead end
{If i cant move foward maybe go backwards..?} The bird of steel was struck by an idea
The one place she had never thought to check for information on Fortuna was the Saint Olga police department
{If they have anything of interest there, then they must have even a scrap of information on whoever his fishy associates are} kelly flew towards her goal as she thought of that
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Soon enough she got to her goal
The Saint olga police statiton located right in the middle of the city
{How hard could it possibly be to get the info I need?} The bird made her way into, through a ventilation
Inside the station there were a few cops here and there but the thing that surprised her the most was a familiar face
Comicioner Martin sheyfter was in the station looking no day older than 50
{He was police comicioner when i was a child, i thought he would have reitred by now} the 19 year old thought, as she made her way towards the office that was still his
On the way over she overheard to cops talking too each other, one with a mouthfull of chips
- I had to drop off a couple of reports on the comicioners desk and i swear his office gets messeir everytime i set foot in there - one said exaspereted
The one eating replied - its that godamn "secret filling system" of his, makes his office look like a nest
- yeah yeah cant trust the computer to not get hacked cant trust anyone not to steal - the one not eating repeated the words of his superior
{Awh hell nawh, secret fillimg system?} The bird of steel was already inside, and in the words of her mentor "If you already kneeled you gotta pray"
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Finally landing inside his office and
Jesus christ, was secret filing system a code word for absolute mess?
Regreting most of the decisions that led her here kelly willows begins going through the files
It was an annoying process but she eventually finds something worthwhile
The file on fortuna was next to this missing person report
{Something to look to after} she thought taking a photo of it
Apperently some teachers had been missing for a few months now
She is so focused on reading the files the sopd have on fortuna she doesnt hear the door open
- Wah th- who are you? - a voice shouts behind her
Standing there is none other than comissioner Martin
The man that had saved her life 9 years ago
{Oh this not good} she thought but outloud she said
- How great it is to finally meet you comissioner - the bird of steel opned her arms wide
Martin sheyfter looked the bird of steel up and down and after a moment recognition struck him
- You! Youre the new menace in town - he pointed a finger at her - the bird monster thing that keeps knocking every criminal out
{Welp there goes my status as an urban legend} - precisely, now if you allow me i shall take my findings back to my nest and leave you be
She started walking towards the window in his office but he interrupted her
- Youre holding classified information miss - Martin started reaching for his gun
- oh well…uh.. - she jumped out of the window and flew away as fast as she could
- God damn vigilantes - the comissioner said as she watched the bird of steel escape
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The sun had risen, and Gabriel and José could be seen walking together to the lights of bacchus and talking
- You know Im probably going to hell for this but, I have the perfect role for kelly willows - gabriel said
- Do tell me - josé side eyed him suspiciously
- You know how there is that salesman in the original greenscarab movie that has some vague heart disease, he is there for only a few moments and then he dies? - he asked enthusiasm in his voice
It did not take much for josé to conect the dots
- Nooo you wouldnt
- Just think about it the news the tabloids would goble it up - Gabriel spread his arms wide
- And what would the tabloids eat up? - asked a new voice
José turned and greeted the two actresses
- Henrietta, Morgan - he smiled
Morgan castellan one of the most skilled actress josé had ever seen, and Henrietta Hart a young actress who showed a lot of promise
- oh my god what now? - Henrietta asked exaspereted
Gabriel immediatly launched into explanation
It was Henrietta who asked the obvious question - ok but have you actually talked to kelly about it? It seems kinda insetitive to make her debut be in a play about dead parents when… you know… the willows family tragedy? Talia and Alexandre willows deaths?
- if i were she, i would slap you for it - morgan flat out said
At that Gabriel paused and reconsidered
- ok you three might have a point - Gabriel pondered how to approach his newest actress about this
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Meanwhile kelly had again descended into sewers
The files she had managed to grab proved their usefullness almost immediatly
They contained the blueprints of the lucky treasure
And with that, a clue as to where the fish trio might be hiding, underneath the cassino there are few rooms used to store "equipament" for the shows fortuna makes
{If they are hidden somewhere its gotta be there, lets bust into this aquarium} she thought to herself them immediatly cringed at the aquarium joke
Following the path to right where the casino above ground is, kelly found a wall
She was going to knock onto it to check if there was a room on the other side, but when her fist made contact it went through
{A masking spell, of course} she shoved her head inside to find a long corridor and a series of doors
She took her gun, made sure it was loaded with her most potent sedative, and advanced into the new area
She tried each of the doors, finding them all locked, and since she did not want to alert anyone of her presence just yet she decided against shoting the locks to open them
As she approached the end of the corridor she found a door that opned, sadly it was just an empty room
The room would soon find itself occupied by the bird of steel for the door at the end of the corridor made an unlocking sound
- …. and you know it gets pretty dificult to operate when all those weird pink chemicals start flooding the sewers, if you could deal with them it would be greatly appreciated - one of the voices from before said
It was fortuna who replied
- consider it already dealt with, after all, cant have my most valiable customers disappointed
Kelly spied on them trough the peephole
She should have rested some more instead of just reading the polices report of fortuna and flown here, the guy seemed taller than he already was
The creature that accompanied him was a mix between a human and an octopus
White with blue rings all around, an upper half of human and a bottom of tentacles with its hair tied in a messy bun and wearing a top
After their footsteps faded, she steped out and hoped they had not locked the door
They did not
Inside there was a lab, with a with a lot of vases pots and various containers filled with water(?), Standard lab equipament and a lof of diagrams of fishes and humans
Kelly steped into the lab and began investigating
She took a look at the microscope and noted what seeemed scales placed in it for analysis
-… ssso, like i wasssaying we need more tessstssubjectss becasse the rae we ah going at iss not… - said the creature that had just entered the lab
{Ah shi-} she wiped around to stare at them
Another octupus human hybrid and what seemed to be an angler fish hybrid
Unlike its comrades(?) it wore a mask
They stared at each other for a few seconds before all hell broke lose
The fish immediatly tried to hit her with a vase full of water
She ducked {ay that explains the "fish", now what the hell happened to those people?} She tried to shoot them but they also ducked
- nerites we been had - the octopus yelled taking cover behind a shelf full of chemicals alongside his companion
He grabed one of the chemical vials and threw it at the bird of steel in panic
- sshut up letsss kill her we cant die like diss - nerites said running out their cover towards the bird of steel
- Im not gonna kill you - she said shooting him with a tranquilizer dart and flying out of the way
- Liar - the fish said still trying to catch her
- Just tell me what exectly you are doing? - she wanted answers and she wasnt leaving without them
- ohhoho why dont you twy it out fo yousself - the angler hybrid yelled
{He isnt slowing down, what i shot him with should have made him fall asleep immediatly} she grabed a water container and threw it at him with full force
It hit him square in the face and it did not do any visable damage besides confusing a him little
She backed off to the other side of the lab when she heard the noise of a gun being loaded
- Stay right where you are - the blue and white hybrid pointed a gun at her
{I completely forgot about the other guy} she was in hot water
Since fate had decided to not at all be kind to her today she decided it was go time
{He who runs away lives to fight another day} she screamed as loud as she could, wich surprised her opponents long enough for her to fly to the door and run as fast as she could
Unfortunetly the two aquatic creatures did not stay paralyzed forever and began chasing her
She heard some shoots gerting fired but none hit her
The octups's aim seemed to be terrible
She kept on running and making sharp turns trying to not get shot while unplesant memories resurfaced
She activated an emergency signal for Benedito
She needed back up, the creatures were not letting up
And to top it all off she could hear something else coming towars her
It was a tsunami of pink fluid the came from seeminly nowhere
As she was hit by the wave she felt pain in her in the calf
She was bleeding now
Just great
She tried to keep her head above the current, not wanting to find out if what she was being swept by was toxic
She hit a few walls on the way pain spreading to all of her now
She was beggining to get desparete when it seemed fate had finally tired of screwing her
An opening she could see the sun shining
Gathering all of her remaing strength she willed her wings to flap and got out of the sewer
She collapsed on the ground centimeters away from the sewer she had crawled out of
She was beggining to lose consciouness when she heard two gasps and the sound of steps
{Not again} was her last thought before she finally succumbed to everything
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In another part of town a certain show host had just gotten a very interesting call
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ITS HERE FINALLY AFTER 4 TRIES: CH1 / CH2 / CH3
>(●_●)> what is project featherstorm?
Its my superhero story youll follow my protagonist kelly willows on her way to make saint olga (her home city) a place a little bit better than when she was born in it
(@_@)/ what inspired you to make it?
My main inspiration for kelly is batman and the song winged warrior by the cog is dead
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I also posted project featherstorm on scribblehub.com
@ Quinndominique
(○▪︎○)/ my prounous are he/she/they am genderfluid :DD
Sorry for the long wait on project featherstorm ch3
Youre gonna have to wait some more
Life has been sucking my energy dry and i havent had the time to do the ilustrations (the chapter in itself has already been written tho) but as an apology here is the cover
Gonna try to post it in the begining to the middle of the next month so stay tuned
